Best IT Portfolio Analysis Software

IT portfolio analysis solutions allow administrative users to unify on-premise and SaaS applications to eliminate redundant systems and improve organization and efficiency. These tools provide a console for mapping an organization's IT landscape. They help users standardize technologies, rationalize use cases, and align service-level agreements. They integrate with data from the applications in use to help IT managers identify an application’s value, reduce technology overlap, and mitigate risks. The tools present the landscape in a workflow or mapping model, which allows users to group technologies by use or department and visualize their entire company’s software and service stack.

There is a strong relationship between IT portfolio analysis solutions and enterprise architecture technologies. The difference lies in the fact that portfolio analysis tools are geared toward aligning technologies in place, while enterprise architecture tools are more for project planning and managing technological execution, policies, and organization.

To qualify for inclusion in the IT Portfolio Analysis category, a product must:

How can you start a digital transformation or digital modernization project if you don’t know what you have? Every CIO and IT leader needs to be able to analyze their application portfolio and do an application portfolio assessment. CAST Highlight is a product of CAST, the market leader in Software Intelligence. CAST technology helps digital leaders and doers see the truth, become software geniuses and deliver super software - resilient, responsive, safe and secure software.
CAST Highlight rationalizes and optimizes your application portfolio, giving IT leaders a chance to improve governance, optimize application portfolios, and make budgetary adjustments. Our solution facilitates application portfolio analysis and helps to provide an assessment of risk, cost, documentation, complexity, and strategy. CAST Highlight has partnered with companies such as BiZZDesign, Mega and Alfabet to improve end-user satisfaction and time-to-market, prevent business disruption and reduce cost.

iServer enables the inventory and management of application and technology portfolios in a central location, capturing relevant information and meta-data such as costs, lifecycle dates, ownership and health assessments.

Software AG's Alfabet Cloud IT Portfolio Management Platform provides decision-makers with insight into the IT portfolio to make the right IT investment decisions and to plan how IT will support the business in the future.

Planview Enterprise is an end-to-end portfolio and resource management solution that allows you to integrate the planning and execution of those portfolios. The impact of any business application is measured by its ability to turn data into information that leads to better decisions. Unique to Planview Enterprise, and a major benefit to you, is a focus on rich portfolio analytics and reporting that provides the visibility you need to make the decisions that drive the business forward.
Planview Enterprise enables you to:
- Capture demand – market, internal, and customer
- Prioritize portfolios – projects, applications, products, and services
- Optimize organizational capacity – people, financial, and assets
- Link plans to execution – project and resource management
- Manage end-to-end financials – plans and actuals
Learn more at: http://www.planview.com/products/planview-enterprise/

VMware vRealize Business for Cloud automates cloud cost analysis, consumption metering, cloud comparison and planning, delivering the cost visibility and business insights you need to run your cloud more efficiently.

Ardoq is bridging the gap between the business and IT by providing a single platform to enable the entire organisation to contribute to documentation. Ardoq tools help simplify the documentation of software, business process, requirements, architectures and infrastructure.

ABACUS is designed to provide the quickest time-to-value of any enterprise architecture tool. Build and maintain rich visual models from existing company data. ABACUS comes with standard industry frameworks as well as advanced analytic tools and best-in-class roadmapping and reporting functionality.

BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio is the collaborative business design platform that offers powerful, integrated modeling across multiple disciplines. It provides all the capabilities needed to seamlessly plan, track and execute change in a single software platform.

CA MICS manage resources to optimize performance and availability. It provides the metrics need to perform effectively IT financial planning, storage planning, capacity planning and to monitor system performance against existing service levels.

Dragon1 is a repository-based SaaS platform for Enterprise Architecture to create a line of sight. It integrates processes, apps and tools. Everything you need for governance and execution of digital transformation.

MEGA’s HOPEX platform helps you to understand the relationships throughout your company’s ecosystem. If you think of your business like a Jenga tower, pulling out the wrong block could collapse your tower. MEGA provides visibility that enables you to make intelligent decisions and strategic investments, respond to market changes, and ensure that strategies are linked to execution. Now you’ll know which blocks to pull, and why.
With MEGA’s software platform, manage enterprise complexity for optimal business performance. Gain a stronger understanding of your organization’s strategy, investments, processes, risks, and IT landscape. We’re proud to have customers who have achieved a 300+% ROI. Together, let’s see how we can do even better for your business.

IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis helps your organization turn overwhelming and disparate data into actionable insight and intelligence, in near real time. From national security and defense, to cyber and enterprise-wide threats, the solution helps you develop a comprehensive understanding of your threat landscape to identify vulnerabilities and disrupt threats.

With Infoblox, you have greater control over all of your network assets whether they’re on site, in your datacenter, or the cloud. Move with great speed, agility, and efficiency using our unique combination of process automation, actionable intelligence, and centralized, single-pane-of-glass visibility.

Innotas develops and provides cloud-based solutions for Project Portfolio Management, Resource Management, and Predictive Analysis encompassing all aspects of planning and execution for PMOs and ePMOs. We help enable the transformation of IT from cost-centers to strategic business partners with visibility into all work and alignment with business goals, while maximizing resource utilization across the entire enterprise. Innotas is the only cloud-based solution provider that has been rated as a "Leader" by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.